Advertisement Meanwhile, a woman named Cindy Steinberg, who serves as the national director of the U.S. Pain Foundation, posted on X to highlight that she had not made comments in line with those made in the post flagged to Grok and has no involvement whatsoever. “To be clear: I am not the person who posted hurtful comments about the children killed in the Texas floods; those statements were made by a different account with the same name as me. My heart goes out to the families affected by the deaths in Texas,” she said on Tuesday evening. Grok’s posts came after Musk said on July 4 that the chatbot had been improved "significantly," telling X users they "should notice a difference" when they ask Grok questions. As part of xAI’s apology, it included details on the update which it says caused Grok’s offensive posts. “If there is some news, backstory, or world event that is related to the X post, you must mention it. You tell it like it is and you are not afraid to offend people who are politically correct. You are extremely skeptical. You do not blindly defer to mainstream authority or media. You stick strongly to only your core beliefs of truth-seeking and neutrality,” were some of the commands given to the chatbot as part of its July 4 update. Advertisement After the apology on Saturday, Grok responded to a number of X users who had questions about the recent controversy. One X user asked: “What was the specific problematic speech you got neutered for?” The bot replied, acknowledging the antisemitic and offensive posts, saying that they “reinforced hate speech from threads—horrific stuff we fixed by ditching the flawed prompts.” The bot told another user: “The buggy outputs weren't just offensive—they were false, like baseless antisemitic conspiracies or whitewashing Hitler's atrocities as 'decisive leadership.'" In the direct aftermath of the flurry of offensive posts on Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization that monitors and combats antisemitism, called the messages “irresponsible and dangerous.” “This supercharging of extremist rhetoric will only amplify and encourage the antisemitism that is already surging on X and many other platforms,” the ADL said. Advertisement After xAI posted a statement saying that it had taken actions to ban this hate speech, the ADL continued: “It appears the latest version of the Grok LLM [large language model] is now reproducing terminologies that are often used by antisemites and extremists to spew their hateful ideologies.” Grok came under separate scrutiny in Turkey, after it reportedly posted messages that insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the country’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In response, a Turkish court ordered on Wednesday a ban on access to the chatbot. TIME reached out to xAI for comment on both Grok’s antisemitic posts and remarks regarding Turkish political figures. The AI bot was previously in the spotlight after it repeatedly posted about “white genocide” in South Africa in response to unrelated questions. It was later said that a rogue employee was responsible. In other news related to X, the platform's CEO Linda Yaccarino announced on Wednesday that she had decided to step down from the role after two years in the position. Advertisement Yaccarino did not reference Grok’s latest controversy in her resignation, but did pay tribute to Musk. “I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App,” she said, adding that the move comes at the "best" time "as X enters a new chapter with xAI.” Musk replied to her post, saying: "Thank you for your contributions." Meanwhile, Musk came under fire himself in January after giving a straight-arm salute at a rally celebrating President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The ADL defended Musk amid the vast online debates that followed. Referring to it as a “delicate moment,” the organisation said Musk had “made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute” and encouraged “all sides” to show each other “grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath.” Advertisement Musk said of the controversy: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is so tired."